The Vinyl Countdown # 921

Sly & The Family Stone, There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971)

You know there are those albums – and for that matter books and movies – where you hear the story about how it was panned on release. Or ignored. Dismissed, forgotten. And maybe you’re reading about that in some reissue, or in a piece of retrospective critique. Sometimes it makes sense – you can hear…